It looks like there has been a Google Pagerank update in October 2009 and this time, its not too good. At least not for DatMoney and for those that are die hard fans of the infamous Pagerank.
I actually just stumbled across this by accident because I was checking how many backlinks my sites were getting and where its being linked from. I usually check sites (not just mine but various sites) at dnscoop because they tell you the Pagerank, how old the site has been around, the backlinks, Alexa rating, etc all on one page.
I noticed one of my sites’ Pagerank changed recently so I figured I would check my main sites. Since dnscoop updates like every week after you have checked a site, I just Googled “pagerank checker” and checked a few sites. That’s when I noticed DatMoney was a PR0.
Oh no! What am I going to do? How am I going to live life as a big zero?!
Well, I’m just going to continue to do what I have been doing since I was a PR0 before, till I went to PR4 (and everything in between) and guess what, the money, traffic and everything that goes with it still hasn’t changed.
Of course, I might lose some commentators, some potential blog reviews and just because I’m a PR0 now doesn’t mean I won’t be a PR4 the very next time around. I mean, its happened before and I’m sure it’ll happen again!
The last Pagerank update was in June 2009 and I remained at PR2. Before that, I believe the Pagerank update was in April 2009. I was also testing out all these “nofollow” attributes and it looks like “nofollow” isn’t really a big deal. I mean, I’m back to a PR0 and I added “nofollow” tags to quite a few things on my site.
If you know me, you know that I could careless about Google Pagerank. Just as long as your site doesn’t get de-indexed then it doesn’t matter too much. Your traffic shouldn’t really change and your money shouldn’t change either. Remember when I made almost $1,000 in February in 2008 without a Pagerank?
See, my point exactly! Pagerank = Still Worthless!
So, if you guys care about your Google Pagerank, how did you guys do this past update?
Dropping to a zero (but not unranked) is usually a symptom of Google suspected you of selling links. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling PR or not, they just seem to hate people profitting from links other than Google ads.
I’ve had some fairly long conversations with Google reps over it and even on sites where I’ve removed all paid links (followed an no followed) it can take several months to get the PR back.
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I actually was aiming for gaining PR’s but I know my blog is not in good quality yet. I know I will still be in PR0 for maybe a year but at least, I am investing on a long term business.
As long as we are earning, no problem. But still PR is important.
I’ve heard that Google is going to stop pagerank or will stop using pagerank.
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I remained a 3 with really nothing going on…kinda cool. lol
Hey buddy, sorry this is so OT. My apologies for being gone so long but my current post describes it a bit. I’m ready now to re-subscribe and get back into your awesome blog! Slowly at first until I get full swing again.
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I havn’t had any changes in any of my websites or blogs. Anyone else get any changes?
Tom – StandOutBlogger.com´s last blog ..Blog Flipping Challenge. Anyone Interested?
I heard they’re removing the whole PR system after Caffiene is live.
-Mike
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I used to get PR 2 but now also become PR 0 for a long time. So, you’re not alone. Right?
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Page Rank will still be used to determine ranks, but it won’t be made public anymore. Check out here: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=6a1d6250e26e9e48&hl=en
I am so excited for next PR updates. I am working hard for my blog link building. Right now my blog PR is one, I am so excited to know that is it change for increase my PR.
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For me this one is the good news as the PR for my blog has been increased so far.
To tell you the truth, PR is something I am not too fussed about 0,1,2 or 10 I will continue blogging as I do and not let it have any effect on how I do things. All that matters is that I am still able to achieve what I want to achieve or at least work at it. Getting to hung up on PR can have negative effects on the way a site ends up (i think). Keep on doing what you do well Jay.
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i can not see any change on any of my website so far, to me it is not happeing yet… will see sooon
Yea, Pagerank is going to be history shortly anyway. Don’t be too concerned with PR anymore, just monitor your traffic which is way more important. A few of my blogs used to be PR 5 but now are PR 0 but they still get the same amount of traffic. That’s the only thing I’m concerned about.
There was no page rank update, you dufus. You got penalized by Google.
Is PR is increasing to any blog. My PR is still same.
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Hey friends I am so happy now. Because my blog PR has increase to 3. Before my blog Pr was just one. Thank you google.
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Let’s hope the page rank for my site can be improved as you mentioned the time of October!
yeah you are right page rank really doesn’t matter the thing is this that how much you got traffic in your site. this is the only concern
I lost my page rank a few months ago, and yet traffic didn’t drop, so I’m not overly worried about it. Yeah, it would help in getting some advertisers, but as I said, I’m not going to stress over it. So, welcome to the club. lol
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Pagerank is only for satisfaction;)